Julie Carter

[Brownlie]

A huge influence on my writing, a friend and the person who taught me how a modern sonnet should sound. Here is an excellent interview with her, you can learn a lot just from reading her talk about poetry:

http://www.avatarreview.net/AV10/Miller_interview.htm

and here is her brilliant book of poems made available for everyone for free!!!:

http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/wp-conte...phakia.pdf

Her poems are beautiful I wonder if living near the appalachians gave her inspiration. She gets into viewpoint and identity. I may have said this before but the problem of substance between what is material and immaterial really seems to mystify human beings. Are we just the synapses and electrical impulses of our brains?

I had a class where they brought in a former poet laureate of California to speak and I puzzled over his thoughts for days. Well worth it to read interviews they enhance the value of the poems and teach you how poets think.